Mat for tents



E, D. BARKER MAT FOR TENTS Filed Feb. 8, 19551,`

Feb. l0, 1953 l INVENTOR yEcfwcwvcf E o r ker' ATTORNEY Patented Feb. 10, 1953 UNITED STATES PATENT I OFFICE MAT FOR TENTS Edward D. Barker, New Carlisle, Ohio Application February 8, 1951, Serial No. 210,043

4 Claims. (Cl. 1351) (Granted under Title 35, U. S. Code (1952), sec. 266) of the tent poles, and means for preventing the passage of cold air, drafts, etc., up through such Y apertures.

A still further object of the invention resides in the provision of such a floor in which the polereceiving openings are encompassed by depending flexible sleeves or pockets and tying cords or tapes for securing the walls of the sleeves or pockets into sealing engagement with the tent poles.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will be apparent from the following descriptionwhen taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a side elevational view of a tent mounted upon the novel floor construction;

Figure 2 is a plan view of the ooring per se; Figure 3 is an enlarged detail plan View of a section of the flooring around one of the polereceiving openings and showing the manner of attaching the sleeves about the openings;

Figure 4 is an enlarged vertical sectional view through a portion of the flooring including the pole-receiving opening and sleeve, and showing one of the poles in dotted outline; and

Figure 5 is a horizontal sectional view taken through one of the sleeves.

Referring to the drawings in more detail, the numeral I indicates a tent of any preferred construction provided With the usual guy lines 2 and 3, the latter having their upper ends secured to a reinforced portion 4 of the tent wall.

The flooring for the tent is indicated generally by the numeral 5 and may consist of a rectangular strip of canvas or other suitable flexible material suitably treated on its ground-engaging face.. The area of the flooring is somewhat in excess of the area of the tent with which it is to be associated and is reinforced at its edges by a turnedover portion 6 suitably secured to the body of the fabric by lines of stitching. Secured along the reinforced edges 6 of the flooring is a plurality of loops 'i adapted to receive pegs 8 so as to anchor the ficoring to the surface on which the tent is to be mounted and to maintain the flooring taut.

In the present illustration the tent is provided with four poles 9 and the ooring is provided with four symmetrically arranged apertures through which the lower ends of the poles are passed when the tent is installed upon the flooring. An important feature of the present invention resides in the provision of means for excluding cold air, drafts, etc., from passage up around the poles 9 up into the tent, and for this purpose, as well as for the purpose of preventing the flooring from riding up the poles, each aperture I0 is provided with a dependingsleeve Il preferably formed of leather. j

Surrounding each aperture I0 is a reinforcing patch I2 suitably stitched to the flooring and serving to reinforce that portion of the flooring 5 to which the sleeve Il is attached. As indicated in Figure 3, the upper end of each sleeve or guard Il is provided with radially extending tabs i3 which are bent down onto the ooring around the aperture I0 and stitched in position by double rows of stitching I4, as clearly indicated in Figure 4.

Each sleeve II is preferably formed of a strip of leather doubled over and flanged as indicated by the numeral I5, and intermediate its ends the sleeve is provided with a tying tape I6. The midportion of the tape may be folded over the flanges I5 and the several parts stitched together by lines of stitching I1. The free ends of the tape thus provided are adapted to be drawn around the sleeve I I after the particular pole line has been inserted therethrough and drawn together and tied, as indicated in Figure 1, so as to collapse the sleeve about the pole for the purpose of excluding the entrance of cold air, drafts, etc., to the interior of the tent.

From the foregoing description it will be noted that I have provided a exible-type flooring for tents which is securely held in extended position, not only by the tent pegs 8 but :also by the poles 9 which extend downwardly through the openings I0; that the flooring as shown herein provides a marginal portion extending about the tent, and that the possibility of cold air passing through the apertures I6 of the flooring is reduced to a minimum by reason of the depending sleeves or guards Il encircling the lower ends of the tent poles and collapsed and secured about the same by means of the typing tapes I6.

I claim:

1 A iiexible floor for tents including a strip of f fabric provided with pole-receiving apertures,

means for preventing the passage of currents of air up through said apertures, said means includ- 3 ing a flexible sleeve or pocket encircling each aperture and depending therefrom.

2. A flexible oor for tents including a strip of fabric provided with pole-receiving apertures, means for preventing the passage of currents of air up through said apertures, said means includingfa iie'xible sleeve or pocket encircling each aperture and depending therefrom, and means attached to each sleeve for collapsing the sleeve about a tent pole positioned therein.

3. A iiexible oor for tents including a vstrip of fabric, a plurality of loops secured to the edges of the fabric for receiving anchoring pegs, said fabric provided with pole-receivingapertures spaced inwardly of its edges, a flexible sleeve encircling each aperture and depending therefrom, and a binding tape attached to theexterior of each sleeve for collapsing the sleeve about a tent pole positioned therein.

sleeveabcuta tent pole positioned therein.

EDWARD D. BARKER.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this `patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 2,188,747 Bttick Jan. 30, 1940 FOREIGN PATENTS Number Country Date 110,558 Australia May 23, 1940 

